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His table for Day 3 has started to take shaoe, but will have qualifiers from Day 2C slotted in to the odd numbered seats
Brasilia Table 42
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2 Tyler Witteman (USA) 181400
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4 Alex Tran (USA) 194500
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6 DAREN MORETON (GBR) 27200
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8 Timothy Buxbaum (USA) 75600
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He'd better bring some headphones as Mike Matusow is on Table 43 which I assume will be next door. Tables are being set up in Amazon & Brasilia, plus Miranda. Did Miranda get asked if she consented to this?
Witteman has almost $100K in recorded live cashes, but nothing at all since 2010 when he picked up $42K finishing 10th in a $2500 WSOP 6 Max Event.
Most of Alex Tran's cashes are of a similar vintage, but he did cash in the 2014 ME (576th for $20K) and picked up $900 at a WSOP circuit event in LA back in March.
I can find no Hendon Mob reference to Timothy Buxbaum at all.
Morning all.
Apologies for the abrupt ending last night. There was no mains power available in the Media Centre due to an electrical fault, my lappie battery gave up, & then my I-Pad battery did likewise.
BIG problems all day yesterday here with wifi, Ethernet & mains power, and laptop batteries are not designed for 16 hour days.
Anyway, all is tickity-boo this morning.
"....Tables are being set up in Amazon & Brasilia, plus Miranda. Did Miranda get asked if she consented to this?....."
Curiously, the "Miranda" Room is actually.........the Poker Kitchen.
It's way too easy to knock the WSOP, (or Sky Poker or anyone else for that matter), & we want these huge fields, but I'm not sure I'd want to play a WSOP Main Event in a cafeteria, especially given how much rake is charged.
That aside, WSOP have done a magnificent job again is year, & anyone who suggests otherwise is not living in the real world & has no experience of business or running events.
Play for Day 2C starts in around 45 minutes.
The three Sky Poker Qualifiers who made today are.....
Nicola Lategano, 19,850, Amazon 411, Seat 3
Martin Brinkmann, 56,800, Amazon 402, Seat 1
Brett Gritton, 51,575, Pavilion 169, Seat 7
Blinds will be 250-500/50.
Play has commenced.
Each day of the WSOP - every single day - they have a personality of some sort up on the stage to announce "shuffle up & deal". Usually a Bracelet winner, famous poker player, sports star or whatever.
Today it was, unusually, Kev Mathers, aka "kevmath", who got a huge round of applause.
Kev is one of a very rare breed who does positive things for poker, in the Media mainly, but generally across many platforms, including Twitter & 2+2 where he is a Mod. (What a job that must be). If only we had more like him. He has always been most helpful to me, especially when the usual lads on 2+2 are up to a bit of mischief with all their "anon" aliases.
He is actually playing the event again this year, & has sold all his action in 1% chunks, he gets 20% of any winnings, so I've had 1% again, as I did before. He has very little chance of cashing, of course, but it's good to give guys like Kev a bit of encouragement.
Good luck Kev, & thanks for being a mate.
*Calling in a double up for our shorty*
Sadly it looks like we lost Redmond yesterday.
Both Nicola & Martin have now moved rooms, so a search party (aka Sam) has been sent to locate them.
I bumped into Martin just as he was moving room, he has zoomed up to 83,000.
Don't know how many Nicola has, we need to find his new table first.
Brett is sitting nice & quiet, as is his custom, in Pavilion, & has 52,000.
Just filmed the Daily WSOP Update, & Neil is now filming his Daily Diary thing.
Just bumped into Sky Poker UKPC Champ (ex) Alex Spencer, who is a totally great lad, he's just busted sadly.
He's bright, too.
I asked him how he busted.
"Well I had a set of 7's".......
I stopped him before he continued further, we all know what's next, but unusually, Alex actually did stop there & then, instead of droning on as most do. The boy gets body language, an increasingly rare skill.
The process of a table breaking & moving into another room is a bit like a school "snake".
They all have to walk along the corridor single file, "Indian file" we used to call it, with their chips sealed in a clear polythene bag, but held clearly visible to all. They are not allowed to stop, deviate, or talk to anyone, in case some hanky panky goes off.
I managed to get a quick word with Martin, mid snake, but then the mean nasty lady who was escorting them gave me the dead-eye, the old flt, so I had to retreat.
Bumped into Simon Trumper just now, he has put on more weight here than I have, & that's saying something.
He was with his Daughter, who he arranged to fly out to Vegas after his little Omaha bink. Great stuff.
After his PLO Final, he hired a Harley Davison for a few days & headed out into the mountains. Love Simon, I really do. I gave him a ticking off though, as I'm trying to tie up some stuff for the UKPC next month, so I don't need him disappearing. Outrageous.
PS - Don't forget, the Sky Poker 6-Max UKPC is next month, satellites galore, bla bla bla, you know the drill.